Inkling: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Inkling costs $1.87 per 1M input tokens and $4.68 per 1M output tokens, with a 1.05M context window. Mid-priced: dearer than 73% of this rating, with Inkling Small as the nearest cheaper Thinking Machines option. Recorded for vision, long context 1M+.

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Capabilities
Text & chatVisionAudio
API $/1M (in / out)
$1.87 / $4.68²
Context window
1.05M tokens
Price / mo
API only
OverviewReviews

Inkling is an AI model from Thinkingmachines, priced at $1 input and $4.05 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the mid tier of this rating — dearer than 73% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 1.05M tokens in a single conversation, enough for a full codebase or a contract bundle in one pass. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, vision, audio, long context 1M+, multilingual. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$1 / $4.05per 1M tokens, in / out
Context1.05M tokenstokens per conversation
VendorThinkingmachinesall models from this vendor
TierMiddearer than 73% of models

Cost calculator

Standard$3.29AED 12 per month
With batch −50%$1.64AED 6 per month
With caching on input$3.06AED 11 per month
Standard$32.88AED 121 per month
With batch −50%$16.44AED 60 per month
With caching on input$30.63AED 112 per month
Standard$164AED 604 per month
With batch −50%$82.19AED 302 per month
With caching on input$153AED 562 per month
Standard$658AED 2,415 per month
With batch −50%$329AED 1,207 per month
With caching on input$613AED 2,249 per month

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Inkling sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Kimi K2.6
Cheaper
Moonshot AI
$0.95 / $4262.1K tokens
GLM 5V Turbo
Closest match
Z.ai
$1.2 / $4202.8K tokens
Muse Spark 1.2
Step up
Meta
$1.25 / $4.251.05M tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit
  • Reading screenshots, charts, scanned documents and photos.
  • Whole codebases, contract bundles and long transcripts in a single pass.
Poor fit
  • Integrations that depend on structured function calls.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat
Vision159 models that read images
Long context 1M+88 models holding 1M tokens or more
MultilingualAll 245 models work beyond English
Proprietary API151 closed-weight, API-only models
Thinkingmachines2 models from this vendor
All 245 modelsThe full rating with filters and prices

Frequently asked questions

How much does Inkling cost?

$1 / $4.05 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 3.67 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Inkling?

1.05M tokens in a single conversation.

What can Inkling do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, vision, audio, long context 1M+, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Inkling a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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